GeoGuessr - Get Lost
 

www.geoguessr.com

The premise is simple: you are randomly dropped somewhere on the earth, and you have to use Google street view to figure out where you are.

I found this on Reddit and thought there would be plenty of people here who would enjoy it. It's surprisingly fun and addictive.

What's your high score? Mine's 14,235.

Mother****er!! Of all things, I got a scene where it was LITERALLY nothing but an empty stretch of semi-treelined 2 lane blacktop. Horizon to horizon with no buildings, intersections, hills or anything. But it reminded me of some drives I've had to make in Mid-south Rural Illinois.

Turns out it was just north of Springfield. Off by 80-odd miles.

Sheer coincidence.

Lest some might suspect me to be humble bragging, I was WAY off in my other forays. Put a scene from middle Canada in Louisiana, and a scene on an island off the coast of Moracco in Brazil.

Very addicting.

So far my best score is 14,030.

I got one of those, except mine was northern minnesota

These Canadian ones are killing me.

I just got one on some little tiny island around taiwan. it put me on this really long bridge that took forever to get to anything remotely close lol

Bob Dole is pretty decent at getting close to the correct latitude. Beyond that, though...

This is awesome.

11,033 on my first run. I ended up with two locations in southern Brazil that hurt, but I pretty much nailed one in southern China.

16,556. Beat that, anyone.

I'll admit that I got really lucky on one of them. It dumped me in Milwaukee right in front of the Milwaukee public market. But the others were all pretty hard, and that last one in Norway was really tough. I was sure I was in California or maybe Oregon until I finally saw a road sign that looked odd.

http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3Rh...NvcmUiOm51bGx9

Some of these roads need more road signs, dammit. I've must have gone miles on this one road

15,584 - Got one within 3.8 Km. All in the right country/state.

Hardest was somewhere INDOORS, it was like a a corridor of a museum that was under construction, all writing visible was in what turned out to be Japanese. I picked the wrong part of Japan, but it was in Japan.

Lost on another b/c one clue suggested SK, Canada, and another strongly suggested Montreal, I went with the latter to mal results.

16,806.

I got lucky though. It gave me the entrance to the Valley of Fire. I knew where it was to within 2 km.

Looking for clues makes it easier~

Just guessed 2 km away from the spot in Fairbanks AK :/ That alone was worth 6300 points. Still only ended up with about 12k and that's my highest one yet :(

Nice guess on northern Brazil. What made you think north instead of south?

http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3Rh...ZSI6bnVsbH0%3D


25938

8934 on first try.

Three of my places were in Canada, which I could recognize. I always plotted down in southernish Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and it turns out they were all in the far north of those provinces. Threw me off completely.

21,660

http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3Rh...ZSI6bnVsbH0%3D

Fun game. I'm terrible at it so far though. I'm not really traveling very far along the roads and just trying to wing it though. Most impressive thing I've done is one time it dropped me in a rural field full of sheep. I went a couple miles up and the road and blindly guessed somewhere in Denmark and was right... at least a couple hundred km away.

1st location: Your guess was 2047.184 km from the correct location and gave 1944 points.

2nd location: Your guess was 457.19 km from the correct location and gave 2474 points.

3rd location: Your guess was 962.958 km from the correct location and gave 2193 points.

4th location: Your guess was 789.12 km from the correct location and gave 2264 points.

5th location: Your guess was 5998.518 km from the correct location and gave 1269 points.



Game finished!

You got 10144 points in total.
http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3Rh...ZSI6bnVsbH0%3D


I had no idea where the hell I was on that last one. Couldn't even guess the continent.

I found a sign on a tourist shop and hunted the map until I found the town name.

Also, if you see any billboards with a web address, the domain suffix can be a dead giveaway.

I'm trying to break 15,000 without moving the street view along the road ever. It's not going well.

25911 Biznitches. First one, I got within .5 Km, but then it took forever to a) confirm, and b) refine my suspicions that I was on the effing Alaska Pipeline Highway. There is nothing but dirty snowy pavement going on forever and Peterbilts every 5 miles or so up there. NOTHING!! Even when I knew almost exactly where I was, the map didn't have enough detail to let me pick it precisely, ended up 80 Km off, by far my biggest error.

http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3Rh...pudWxsfQ%3D%3D

I'm cheating a ton and still I missed one within the country by a large margin. Got up to 18,152. This could help my geography.

Like the game isn't hard enough with out car licenses plates being blurred out.....

Game finished!

You got 11830 points in total.

**** MEAD, NEBRASKA! ruined my score. Stuck in that Podunk shithole and found nothing but old houses and a city-building parking lot (not labeled). Not one junker car could have had a Cornhusker N somewhere on it? Finally gave up and picked somewhere in Ohio.

21,986

Anyone been dropped in the middle of a dead, flat grassland on a gravel road? This is crap.

29187 - and two were in Russia.

http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3Rh...NvcmUiOm51bGx9

Those are some pretty good scores. I just played it again and got this Japanese island that was around 1000 km southeast of the main islands. I'm glad I didn't spend 15 minutes on it because I never would've figured it out. It was in the general area of Iwo Jima.

I have no ****ing clue what to do when I get shit with signs in cyrillic. I'm pretty much guessing if it's a large or small city in Russia. Throwing a dart at a ****ing board, pretty much.

16921 on my second try

http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3Rh...pudWxsfQ%3D%3D

The Russian ones were quite vexing, because there were a SHIT TON on landmarks, but everything was Cyrillic.

The first was a stone's throw from this

http://religiousarchitecture.files.w...42af385431.jpg

And google image search 'Kazan Russia' for a lot of unique, but totally unknown to me, nearby architecture.



The last one was in the upper right of this picture

http://khongthe.com/wallpapers/archi...sia-237029.jpg

The US ones, OTOH, were in the middle of BFE with nothing around. I went like 20 miles south to BARELY make out a reference to Rio Grande Village, first identifiable landmark. Then I went another 15 or so miles west in the other to find I-25, then had to scour I-25 for a while to find the referent intersection.

Damn. Just got 14,000. Not travelling to find road signs or landmarks is really hard.

Hahahaha, yesssssss. I did it without moving around at all. http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3Rh...ZSI6bnVsbH0%3D

I got 20,000 based on two LUCKY guesses in Mexico and eastern Europe, one significant clue in the Brazil location, and (best of all) a scene I actually know in downtown Jackson, MS.

I wonder what's with all the landmarks in Canada? And Japan too, really.

I understand that the geographically large countries are going to get more opportunities than others, but then I don't understand why China doesn't have a bunch of landmarks. That's a pretty shitmassive country too.

Go to Google Maps and try to enter street view in China. There's no data there at all.

(knowing what nations have Google Maps street view data and which don't is a lifesaver when it comes to this game)

21445 good game i love being a det. and figuring out where i was.

I had one where I was literally out in a field. I couldn't move anywhere, except to rotate. From one perspective, you could literally see that it was a guy standing out in the middle of nowhere with a camera due to his shadow.

Sometimes you get bad luck and it puts you in some remote place that you really have no chance of getting. Other times, it's quite easy and you can track down the place you are at by name on the big map.


I got 18.2k on this one.

I had that too. It was a 360 photo of a guy standing in what looked like a snowy sports field of a high school or small college. I guessed Michigan. It was Ukraine.

Over 30K

The last one was ROFL - Standing in front a big marquee for the Say When Casino. Marked me as 3M as is meters from the correct spot.

http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3Rh...pudWxsfQ%3D%3D

I had one that was the interior of a parking garage with snow on the ground. No readable signs. Couldn't go anywhere, just turn around.

Turns out it was located in northern Kazakhstan. Like I was going to guess that.

WTF is this?? It dropped me right in the middle of a tennis match. LMAO I can't move.

http://i.imgur.com/ATEyZMP.jpg?1

32,154. I don't think I could do any better.

How are you guys getting such high scores? Are you using google and stuff to get help? I just walked up the road, down the road, and guessed.

I think they have to be using google for help, or they are going all the way down the road until they see a town name and searching on the map in the game

14911 - first try, got screwed by being placed on some beach in the Ukraine. Coudn't even move, just look around in a circle at literally nothing but a rocky beach. I guessed Greece so I wasn't as far off as I could have been. Also got soe random highway at the top of Norway, guessed Denmark.

LMAO

Here's my best pick so far... I saw 802 on a building and could kind of read the road sign as Commercial Ave. Found one in Washington. I was RIGHT on the building, but it said I was off a bit.

http://i.imgur.com/5o8XMum.png

6155 points in one guess, hell yeah!

2100 BEAR PAW LANE MARIANNA, FL


http://i.imgur.com/jn0qCSF.png

Gettin' good at this. This is so addictive.

U.S. 101, Gold Beach, Curry, Oregon 97444, United States


http://i.imgur.com/VPZx01i.png

Pretty decent score I think. I'm getting better at this.

26134 points

http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3Rh...NvcmUiOm51bGx9

Didn't see this one. Well done.

http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3Rh...pudWxsfQ%3D%3D

24,175 on first try, but I got lucky that I found some kind of street sign or a dsitinct business name on each go. A couple there were even things like roundabouts or rivers that made it possible to guess within a few feet of the actual spot. Fun game. This is going to be addictive.

This is awesome.

http://www.geoguessr.com/?s=eyJ0b3Rh...U0NzA0MDM5XV19 27429 boom

Australia is a round ruiner for me.

Botswana has destroyed many a fine round for me. Turns out it looks just like Texas.

I was fairly close...

Being dropped in the ocean where the only clue is a scuba diver killed it for me.

This is different. But fun.

Yes, Id say people are cheating-- myself included. Any raw score in the 15k range is definitely more impressive.

Y'all should play on hard mode with me. You can't move the location at all (but you are allowed to Google anything you can see or zoom in on from your fixed starting spot. 15,000 scores on "hard mode" feel so good.

We should have three different leagues:

1. Anything goes. Use google or whatever.

2. Don't move, but use google or whatever.

3. Walk around all you want, but you can't use any resources other than your own knowledge. (I prefer this one myself.)

I guess there's a fourth option where we don't move, and rely on your own knowledge, but I haven't seen anyone use that yet.

I had 21,000 points. It gave me one in Wyoming, one in Colorado, one in Washington State, one in Poland, one in Australia. Australia and Wyoming were hard. Totally middle of nowhere.

It stops after 2...

3 and 4 are ocean locations

A possible 4th option would be to walk around all you want, and use the built in map for clues. There have been a couple of times where I ran across a highway sign with a town name and highway number. The name would sound like it belonged somewhere (like Mexico), so I would zoom in on the suspected country and look for the highway number. That's the way I've been playing.

**** ALL THE RULES!!!1

I usually live and let live, but I have to speak up here.

You people who are using the maps and using google are leaving yourselves woefully unprepared in the event of spontaneous teletransportation. If you get spontaneously teletransported to a random spot on the globe, you aren't going to have the map to help you. You may not have your phone, and even if you did it probably wouldn't work due to the large-scale natural electromagnetics involved in spontaneous teletransportation. You're going to land somewhere, and it's going to be up to you to figure out where you're at, using only what's in your head. Using google and maps and stuff in this preparatory simulation is only going to make you more vulnerable in the actual event.

Go fully monty on the information. Walk around and give it your best shot. You'll thank yourself later when it actually happens.

Yeah, it's broke. I spent way too long trying to fix it and gave up.

Pretty cool, but there are a few that there is no possible way to tell if you are in west texas, austrailia, or the plains of south America.

I was able to get a decent score on the Russian town I ended up in by making looking at the trees. They looked kinda Scandanavian, so I guessed northwestern Russia outside of St. Petersburg. Wasn't SUPER close, but way better than it could have been.

There was a dusty, barely-civilized small town I SWORE had to be in the Oklahoma panhandle but it turned out to be in the middle of nowhere in Australia. ****ed up my score big time.

Well, they drive on the left in Australia, so if you can spot a vehicle that's a clue.

They also drive on the left in many other places as well.